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After exploring the many hands-on activities around ECHO, you might look forward to sitting down and relaxing for a bit. |
No matter the season, some times it's nice to sit in a
quiet space and be entertained for 15-30 minutes. Be it
a live demonstration or a movie short, you can typically
a daily dose of science-themed entertainment in ECHO's
Community Room. Viewing possibilities include the
ever-popular Bill Nye the Science Guy topics or the film
versions of stories like The Lorax, Diary of a Worm, and
YouTube's Science Favorites.We make an effort to
theme our movie shorts with our changing exhibits, the
season of the year, and/or our Lake mission. For our
Backyard Monsters exhibit, we pulled out the Bill Nye
DVD Insects where Bill talks to special guest Queen
Latifah, who's abuzz about her other favorite
queens...bees. The lab kids go exploring at an
insectorium and go digging for insect fossils. Another
Bill Nye favorite during this exhibit, Life Cycles,
explains insect life cycles and shows us why they are
similar in many different living things.
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| On a rainy day you might be able to catch Wetlands,
where Guests watch and learn as our science guy sloshes
across America's wetlands and gets a bit muddy showing
us how swamps, bogs, and marshes help control floods,
naturally filter water, and provide a good home to lots
of living things. If our Animal Care Department is
giving a seasonal talk like "Amphibians in Spring in
Vermont," we might feature Amphibians where Bill Nye
explains how amphibians can live both on land and in
water, and he demystifies the process of metamorphosis.
Other ecology themes include shorts like Water Cycle
which details the phases of the water cycle:
evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and
collection. With Lakes and Ponds Bill Nye explores where
all that water comes from. And in Rivers and Streams,
talks about the origin of those bodies of water and
shows us what impact they have on our lives. |
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If you're here during our annual ECHO Earth Weeks/MudFest
over April vacation, you might be able to see the Diary
of a Worm by Doreen Cronin. Here you'll get to meet a
worm not that different from you or me, except that his
head looks a lot like his tail! This is a funny journal
about the daily doings and the hidden world of a lovable
underground dweller that. It's only 8 minutes long which
is just right for the very young.When you hear an
announcement for an ECHO movie short you know it's time
to relax. You'll surely enjoy the movies, and the quiet,
in our Community Room! |
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